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Revelation 12 is the twelfth chapter of the Book of Revelation or the Apocalypse of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The book is traditionally attributed to John the Apostle, [ 1][ 2] but the precise identity of the author remains a point of academic debate. [ 3] This chapter contains the accounts about the woman, the dragon ...
The blue-dominated spectral color beyond blue is referred to as purple by many speakers in the United States, but this color is called violet by many speakers in the United Kingdom. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In some British authoritative texts the term purple refers to any mixture of red and blue, suggesting the color term purple covers the full range ...
The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many died from the water, because it was made bitter. ( Rev 8:10–11) Apsinthos is believed to refer to a plant of the genus Artemisia, used metaphorically to mean something with a bitter taste. [ 4] The English rendering "wormwood" refers to the dark green oil ...
The color purple, as defined in the X11 color names in 1987, is brighter and bluer than the HTML/CSS web color purple shown above as purple (HTML/CSS color). This is one of the very few clashes between web and X11 colors . This color can be called X11 purple . Veronica prostrata, for which the color veronica is named.
According to the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 10, Saint Peter had a vision of a vessel ( Greek: σκεῦος, skeuos; "a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners") full of animals being lowered from heaven ( Acts 10:11 ). A voice from heaven told Peter to kill and eat, but since the vessel (or ...
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker that won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. [1] [a]The novel has been the target of censors numerous times, and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2010 at number seventeen because of the sometimes explicit ...
Heaven in Christianity. In Christianity, heaven is traditionally the location of the throne of God and the angels of God, [ 2][ 3] and in most forms of Christianity it is the abode of the righteous dead in the afterlife. In some Christian denominations it is understood as a temporary stage before the resurrection of the dead and the saints ...
Revelation 21. Revelation 13:16–14:4 on Papyrus 47 from the third century. Revelation 21 is the twenty-first chapter of the Book of Revelation in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. This chapter contains the accounts of "the new heaven and the new earth", followed by the appearance of the New Jerusalem, "prepared as a bride".